A
sweet smell of success
alliteration
...when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics...
Can a fish swim?
rhetorical question
I could eat a horse.
hyperbole
He slithers like a snake.
simile
In this moment, opportunity was knocking on our door.
personification
The sky weeps.
personification
a neat knot need not be re-knotted
alliteration
Her words cut deeper than a knife.
metaphor
The bacon sizzled in the pan.
onomatopoeia
First the work than the pleasure
ellipses
Ya'll must be dumb.
informal register / colloquial language
the fzzzzzz of the heater
onomatopoeia
the deafening silence
oxymoron
The tree is the god of the forest.
metaphor
cruel kindness
oxymoron
juxtaposition
David was being a scrooge.
allusion
You don't have to be Albert Einstein to understand division.
allusion
anaphora
All of this belongs to the crown.
metonymy
The pen is mightier than the sword.
metaphor / metonymy
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
parallelism
I lost my pride, my confidence, and my wallet.
anticlimax
I am currently between jobs.
euphemism